Tonight: Walking Off the Artistic Cliff
Wednesday, June 1, 7:00 - 9:00pm
Panel Discussion - Walking Off the Artistic Cliff
Making good art requires taking risks. Join Jack Rasmussen, Director of the American University Museum at the Katzen Center, Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D., Professohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifr of Art History at Montgomery College and art critic for the Gazette Newspapers and Welmoed Laanstra, Curator of Public Art for Arlington County, and moderator Ellyn Weiss, as they discuss what it means to commit to the new and unknown.
Free. Open to the Public.
Brentwood Arts Exchange @ Gateway Arts Center
3901 Rhode Island Avenue
Brentwood, MD 20722
301-277-2863/ tty. 301-446-6802
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Minute Wings
I said, I don’t like Yeats.
I only like Marti, Neruda, Borge and Paz.
You read this poem to me:
I did the dragon's will until you came
Because I had fancied love a casual
Improvisation, or a settled game
That followed if I let the kerchief fall:
Those deeds were best that gave the minute wings
And heavenly music if they gave it wit;
And then you stood among the dragon-rings.
I mocked, being crazy, but you mastered it
And broke the chain and set my ankles free,
Saint George or else a pagan Perseus;
And now we stare astonished at the sea,
And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us.
I was scared by the dragon-rings,
and the will which I was doing,
and even by minute wings.
But you opened me,
and gave me my freedom,
and Yeats.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
The DC Art card deck
Art in Hand™ is an arts publisher who was looking to bring their City Project Decks of cards to the city of Washington, DC.
They selected 54 artists who are currently living and working in the Washington, DC area to participate in their DC City Project Deck, which has just been published.
The Washington, DC Project is a deck of fully functional playing cards where each individual card in the deck (plus 2 jokers) is rendered in the typical style of the contributing artist. The project creates widespread exposure for participating artists while producing a unique, entertaining, functional and green product for the city of Washington, DC.Check out the project and all the cards and associated artwork here.
The cards are available at many stores locally and also at most local museum stores, or you can order them online here.My favorite card?
Judith Peck gets a winning hand with her gorgeous Queen of Spades.
You can buy Judith's painting here.
Just keeps on getting worse and worse...
On Thursday, Cuban pro-democracy activist Caridad Caballero was arrested by the Castro regime's Workers Paradise's police.
She has not been heard from since then and her whereabouts remain unknown.
Caballero, a member of the Ladies in White support group ("Damas de Apoyo"), was arrested for participating in a peaceful protest against the Castro regime.
Her family has been frantically searching for her in all known police and state security operation centers, but they refuse to reveal any information about her well-being or whereabouts.
As you can see from the video clip below of a previous arrest (in March 2011) of Caballero, the Castro regime is not shy about using repressive force against her and her family.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Campello at auction
A British antique art dealer has one of my drawings from eleven years ago up for auction. It starts at 195 pounds, so it's a great deal!
Check it out and bid on it here. Hurry! Only 14 hours left!
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